Fifty Lifetimes Late

[Intro] [Rain] Soft piano arpeggio, distant wind [Verse: Intimate] I found your fallen bloom beside the stone Carved with a name I swear I’ve known before The rain has washed the edges soft and slow I trace the lines my fingers used to know [Pre-Chorus: Wistful] I turned around when I heard your voice But you were gone, just an empty choice The door stood half-open to the street I still can taste the air where we used to meet [Chorus: Expansive] [Hook: Emotional] Two souls tied across a thousand lines We always meet a little out of time A lantern waits unlit upon the sill Another lifetime, and another hill We reach for hands that someone else holds now And carry on, and wait, and wonder how [Verse: Intimate] I walked the market in the summer rain A silk scarf brushed my shoulder, called my name I turned to see your face across the crowd A cart pulled between us, you faded out The scarf was gone, I held a single thread The scent of you still lingers in my head [Pre-Chorus: Wistful] I ran out into the pouring street Your footprints vanished in the wet concrete The sky was dark, the lantern light was low I felt your shadow where I used to go [Chorus: Expansive] [Hook: Emotional] Two souls tied across a thousand lines We always meet a little out of time The door still leans half-open to the rain The flower faded where we used to lain We cross the paths that someone else has planned And steal a breath before we turn again [Bridge: Emotional, Climactic] I held you once when the plague walked through the town You breathed your last before I could lay down My head upon your shoulder, feel your heat Another life, I died before we meet We were born a continent apart We loved the same song from the beating heart You sang it low when I was standing near I didn’t know it was you I’d waited for my dear [Instrumental Break] Sweeping strings, rising violin and cello [Chorus: Powerful] [Hook: Emotional] Two souls tied across a thousand lines We always meet a little out of time The lantern glows unlit beyond the door The fallen bloom still lies upon the floor We’ll meet again when the stars align Just one more lifetime, just a little more time [Outro: Fading] [Rain fades] Soft guitar arpeggio, quiet strings I trace the doorframe where your hand would be Waiting for the next time we meet [Ending]